A Girls’ Night Out!

I have something to confess. I created an unprecedented record on Nov 27, 2010. I was about 2 hours late for a girls’ night out!

Seated cozily in an American-themed restaurant at the Curve, a shopping mall just outside of Kuala Lumpur (K.L.), eight gorgeous ladies were enjoying dinner while chatting away. And, I showed up toward the end of the dinner — just in time for dessert!

Well, I didn’t mean to create a brand new record that evening! Little did I know running errands around the town would take me almost an afternoon! Thank goodness! I managed to arrive just in time to spend an hour or so with the ladies — and to indulge myself in home-made desserts. *Chuckling*

Personally, I get to hang out with Swee San and Wendy fairly often. Whenever Wendy and her family get to visit to K.L., we’d try to meet up unless schedules don’t allow us to do so. For Reese and Sonia, it’d been a while since I last saw them, especially Sonia! My! Was it since February this year?

I was happy that Reese’s and Sonia’s daughters tagged along this time. So, adding in Wendy’s two baby girls, we’d got four little lasses at the table with us. Those quality moments spent had definitely bonded us closer.

(Sonia, thanks for the photo!)

Of course, for us sweet tooth, how could we not have dessert to conclude the evening! Sonia brought some freshly baked butter cake for us to try. The cake crumb was on the moist and tender side, emitting a pleasant sweet vanilla note as I nibbled it. (Oops! Don’t have photo for that!)

As for Swee San, we actually met up on an impulse (sort of) the Tuesday before at the same shopping mall to chat and share our latest creations with one another. (I brought my Serradura and pudding dorayaki.)

Not only did I get to try Swee San’s L’Emeraude that Tuesday evening, I also had a taste of her other creation last Saturday. While Swee San calls it “L’Exotique,” I call it “L’Hawaii.” Although the entire table paid full attention to the pro as she introduced her entremets, we still got lost toward the end. Why? Because the combination of ingredients and flavors was just — exotic. *LOL*  Shame on me! I don’t have photo of the dessert, too! Well, let’s just wait for the pastry chef to unveil her exotic entremets in her next blog post. Shall we?

From Reese

As sweet as they have always been, Reese and Wendy brought us souvenirs. The artsy-looking little present from Reese is safe on my display shelf now. I, in the meantime, can’t stop snacking on Wendy’s palm sugar-coated candied coconut at work. How can I resist when it’s got two of my favorite flavors combined!

Wendy's palm sugar-coated candied coconut

Now, what did Pei-Lin bring to share with the ladies? Pudding dorayakis (プリンどら焼き). If things go as planned, these dorayakis extraordinaire, alongside those good old anko-filled ones (どら焼き), will be featured in the very next installment. Stay tuned!

Thank you for such a wonderful evening, ladies! With everyone getting busier, and with everyone living so far apart from each other, it’s rather challenging for us to meet up for a chatter. However, we already have ideas coalescing in our heads for the next few months. Let’s hope we can iron things out and put our words into action!

(Sonia, thanks for the photo!)